Alternate Finishing builds partnerships with our customers by providing efficient reliable service and proven quality with a commitment to adapting our solutions to your needs.
AFI performs high quality gold and other precious metal plating on all types of printed circuits and many other electronic parts.

We will help customers develop robust and cost-effective solutions.

We give advice to improve existing designs as products evolve.

We also help with defect trouble-shooting and failure investigation.

See our Finishes, Capabilities and Services below, and let us help you.

Metal Finishing supplied with XRF thickness measurements:

Sulfamate Nickel

Hard Gold (150-200 Knoop)

Soft gold (<90 Knoop)

Electroless Nickel

Electroless Nickel and Immersion Gold (ENIG)

Immersion Silver final finish

Electroless Gold

Copper

Capabilities:

ENIG - Electroless Nickel (6-8% Phosphorous) / Immersion Gold

Automated

Printed circuits up to 26”x30” flex, rigid, and rigid-flex

Maximum volume thirty 18”x24” panels per hour*

Electrolytic Hard Gold, Soft Gold and Nickel

Hand line

Printed circuits up to 24”x30”

Ten panels per hour at typical requirements*

Automated for large volume jobs

Can handle up to 54”x36”

Maximum one hundred and twenty 18”x24” panels per shift*

Immersion Silver

Automated

Printed Circuits up to 36”x18”

Twenty panels per hour

Electroless Gold

Common sizes: 5x7, 5x4, 3x3, 2x2

Copper Plating

Special Processes

Electrolytic Nickel plating up to .005" thick

Low (<6% Phosphorous) Electroless Nickel

High (>8% Phosphorous) Electroless Nickel

Services:

On-Site Chemical Laboratory

Atomic Absorption Unit, Non-Destructive Testing

X-ray Florescence

Convection Baking

Ultrasonic Rinsing

*Production rate and lead times may vary with size, shapes and requirements.